Quotes About Truth

There are two persons in the world we never see as they are, one's self and one's other self.

It belongs to every large nature, when it is not under the immediate power of some strong unquestioning emotion, to suspect itself, and doubt the truth of its own impressions, conscious of possibilities beyond its own horizon.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.

The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth.

No man is the worse for knowing the worst of himself.

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

All know the way, but few actually walk it.

Truth exists; only lies are invented.

The truth shall make you free.

It is when you lose sight of yourself, that you lose your way. To keep your truth in sight you must keep yourself in sight and the world to you should be a mirror to reflect to you your image; the world should be a mirror that you reflect upon.

Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone and hurt them to the bone, you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.

Self-deception, sometimes called self-sabotage kills dreams faster than deception from others.

The greatest horror in the world is not finding a monster but finding out you are the monster.

A lot of books in the self-help section of your bookstore really belong in the fiction section.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life, and there is nothing better.

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

Science is but the exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance.

The Internet's been so great, and it's so nice to have fans do nice, elaborate websites, but I think the downside is some of the things... for real fans to go on and see that 90 percent of the information isn't true or to see pictures that aren't really me, or for them to be able to sell these things, that's one of the downsides, I think.

The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact